The National Center is privileged to work with our Advisor Board members to guide the Center through deepening our discussion and deliberations around policy and program planning, strategy, and systems development. Members, who are appointed for a 2-3 year term, provide strategic guidance and dynamic perspectives to steer and enhance the operations of the Center. These could include, but are not limited to, research and planning; capacity building; service delivery; equity and inclusion; governance; and technology.
The Advisory Board membership strongly reflects the diversity and breadth of professional, geographical, and cultural communities participating in, and benefiting from, elder abuse multidisciplinary teams across the nation. We are deeply honored to have the following individuals contribute their wisdom, expertise, and perspectives to the Center’s strategic directions and operations.
Alicia Aiken
Alicia Aiken has dedicated 25 years to working within the public and non-profit sectors to further social justice for people living in poverty and surviving violence. Alicia brings a deep understanding of the legal and social services non-profit sector, having spent 15 years as a trial attorney and then a member of the Executive Committee at Legal Aid Chicago, a 150-person legal services program.
Alicia is a Principal at the Danu Center for Strategic Advocacy, and the Director of the Danu Center’s Confidentiality Institute, a national policy and technical assistance project that supports helping professionals to protect privacy for crime victims. Alicia is also the Faculty Fellow for Practising Law Institute’s Interactive Learning Center, where she designs innovative programs that teach lawyers to work well with individual clients, and hosts the podcast Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files, which tells stories about the work of non-profit and pro bono attorneys nationwide. Alicia regularly strategizes with direct service non-profits, local coalitions, government entities, law firms, and professional organizations on a wide range of issues, including service delivery models, client confidentiality, organizational structure, internal procedures, legal compliance, litigation strategy, policy advocacy, professional development, and distance learning design.
Alicia attended the University of Michigan, where she received a Law degree (’95) and a Bachelor of Arts in English/History (’92). In 2006-2007, Alicia was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Women Founder’s Award, enabling her to study organizational change at Northwestern University, and to undertake a national study of model domestic violence courts. Most recently, she received the American Bar Association’s 2018 Sharon L. Corbitt Award for Exemplary Legal Service to Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking.
To get in touch with Alicia Aiken and Danu Center’s Confidentiality Institute, contact us via www.confidentialityinstitute.org or www.danucenter.org
Jason Burnett
Jason Burnett, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, and Director of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment (TEAM) Institute. TEAM began in 1997 as the first formal Adult Protective Services (APS) and academic medical school collaboration to address elder mistreatment and self-neglect. Dr. Burnett has been conducting research on elder mistreatment and self-neglect since 2005. His work includes studying risk factors, designing and evaluating interventions to address mistreatment and self-neglect, and developing and evaluating public health community-facing programs for addressing the needs of agencies working to provide evidence-based services to older adults experiencing mistreatment or self-neglect. He is currently the Director of the Forensic Assessment Center Network (FACN), the APS Division statewide remote-capacity assessment program launched in 2017, and the FACN, APS Division statewide Forensic Accounting Analysis program launched in 2021. Dr. Burnett currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for the National Center by providing guidance on elder mistreatment, multidisciplinary team collaborations, and the use of technology to conduct remote capacity assessments for Adult Protective Services clients.
James Foley
James Foley has been with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) since 2002 and is currently Vice President Emeritus, primarily dealing with financial crime and intelligence analysis training and technical assistance. Prior to coming to NW3C, James worked as an instructional design and training consultant for agencies in the Washington, D.C. area. In 2005, he was involved in the early planning and development phase of what became the NW3C Financial Crimes Against Seniors (FCAS) course and has participated in updates to that curriculum and other elder fraud related training development projects over the years. James has also instructed FCAS and other classes and has presented on elder exploitation topics at several conferences during the past few years. He has recently been working with NW3C developers and subject matter experts on an OVC funded training project, Responding to Transnational Elder Fraud: A Victim-Centered Approach for Law Enforcement, which will help investigators deal with cases of elder fraud where the perpetrator is not in the United States, but the victim is. He also assisted with the development of the user guide for the Senior Abuse Financial Tracking and Accounting (SAFTA) tool and provides technical assistance to those using the tool when needed. The SAFTA tool is available on the website of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP.ORG).
Sheri Gibson, PhD
Dr. Sheri Gibson received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Geropsychology from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). She is an instructor and clinical supervisor for the Psychology Department at UCCS and a faculty affiliate with the UCCS Gerontology Center. Dr. Gibson serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, is a member of the Research Committee for the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA), and is a founding member of the Pikes Peak Elder Justice Center. In addition to being an advocate for elder justice, Dr. Gibson has a private psychotherapy and consultation practice, which includes the provision of capacity evaluations, expert testimony, consultation, and training.
For more information on Dr. Gibson’s services and resources, visit her website: www.DrSheriGibson.com
Jacque Gray
Dr. Jacque Gray is a Choctaw/Cherokee retired associate professor with the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She also serves as director of the National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative (NIEJI), a national resource center to address elder abuse in Indian Country. In addition, Gray is the lead for the Strong Heart Study Psychosocial Work Group, a longitudinal study of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders in American Indians that began in 1988. Gray also consults with the National Center for Native Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. She has worked to address health, mental health, and health disparities across Indian Country for 40 years and internationally, working with Māori suicide prevention. She participated in the White House Conference on Aging in 2015 to address elder justice issues. Gray received a doctorate from Oklahoma State University in 1998 and has been at UND since 1999. Gray is a member of the Society of Indian Psychologists; she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Jennifer Kirchen
Jennifer Kirchen is a Senior Research Associate/Subject Matter Expert at the Adult Protective Services Technical Assistance Resource Center (APS TARC). As a member of the APS TARC team, she provides technical assistance support to state APS programs and federal grant recipients. Jennifer is a knowledgeable program director with over 20 years of APS experience at the county, state, and national levels. She began her career as an APS investigator which gives her tremendous insight into the needs of APS field investigators. She has a unique perspective, having directed APS programs in both Minnesota and Arizona. Her national experience comes by way of the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) both as a member and previous Western Regional Representative as well as the APS TARC.
Jordan Satinsky
Jordan Satinsky is the Executive Officer to the Assistant Chief of Police, Montgomery County, Maryland. He has worked in the law enforcement profession since 1999. Since that time, he has been an investigator, investigative sergeant, and investigative lieutenant in the Special Victims Investigations Division. In those roles, he had the opportunity to grow and reimagine the role of the investigators assigned to the elder/vulnerable adult abuse section. The State’s Attorney’s Office, the Health and Human Services Department, and the police department joined together to investigate elder/vulnerable adult abuse cases. Based on this collaboration, more victims’ needs were met, and offenders were held accountable.
Page Ulrey
Page Ulrey is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the King County Prosecutor’s Office. She graduated from Amherst College and Northeastern University School of Law. In 2001, she was appointed to the position of elder abuse prosecutor in her office. In that position, she prosecutes cases of neglect, financial exploitation, sexual and physical assault, and homicide, and co-leads her office’s elder abuse MDT. Page conducts training on elder abuse prosecution and investigation across the country. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and has twice spoken at White House conferences on Elder Justice.
Sherrill Wayland
Sherrill Wayland, Senior Director of Special Initiatives and Partnerships, serves as a trusted thought partner to national initiatives team members and SAGE staff across the organization. They lead the National Resource Center on LGBTQ Aging, serves as SAGE lead for the Long-Term Care Equality Index (in partnership with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation) and works in close partnership with SAGECollab, SAGECare, and the Diverse Elders Coalition. Sherrill began work with SAGE at the local level in 2008, founding the SAGE Affiliate in St. Louis, MO (now Missourians Aging with Pride). Sherrill earned a Master of Social Work degree from the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, and has over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of education, disability, and LGBTQ+ older adult advocacy.